With William Moore stepping up to the NFL, the Missouri Tigers start with new safeties. Hardy Ricks is listed at No. 1 on the Tigers' depth chart at strong safety
during preseason practice. Sophomore Kenji Jackson is listed as the top
free safety.

Cell phone subscribers in nearly every state pay anywhere from 20 cents
to $1.50 a month for what is described in their bills as 911
improvements. In some states, less than half
of that money is actually going to help emergency dispatchers keep pace
with the features of smart phones.

Missouri high school students exceeded the national average on the ACT college entrance exam by half a point, but three-fourths of Missouri test-takers still failed to meet college readiness bench marks.

Despite the success of U.S. Sen. Jim Webb's trip to Myanmar, scholars don't think the ruling generals of the country will meet long-standing international demands to release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi ahead of elections set for 2010.

Police are searching for two masked men who robbed a home early Tuesday morning. At about 1:45 a.m., two men wearing bandanas over their faces forced open the door of a home, awaking the resident, according to a news release.

Faced with rising numbers of employees at retirement age, the city of Columbia is taking the neccessary steps to maintain services and functions of many departments. Although the city has been gathering data on employees eligible for retirement
and soon will begin work on broadening job classifications and salary
ranges, it still lacks a formal plan to deal with the coming onslaught
of retiring baby boomers.

The Columbia City Council on Monday night approved spending $545,000 in Non-motorized Transportation funds for easements needed to construct a sidewalk on the north side of West Broadway from Stadium Boulevard to Fairview Road.